One United Nations Park

The tower rises 42 stories in a crisp black curtain wall — restrained, rigorously detailed, unmistakably Meier in proportion even as it departs from his usual white. The 148 condominium residences run from one to four bedrooms, including duplex and penthouse homes at the summit, all positioned on the upper floors to capture the river and skyline.

The interiors are finished to a high specification. Homes have white oak floors throughout; open kitchens feature white Calacatta Lincoln marble, Dornbracht fixtures, and Gaggenau appliances behind custom Italian white-lacquer cabinetry; and each residence is wired with a Crestron smart-home system controlling temperature, lighting, and motorized shades from a phone or tablet. The result is a contemporary, light-forward home that reads as architect-designed from the floor up rather than developer-standard.

One United Nations Park runs as a full-service condominium: a 24-hour attended lobby, doorman and concierge service, and a roughly 15,000-square-foot amenity suite designed by Richard Meier & Partners. The centerpiece is a 70-foot indoor lap pool with East River views, supported by a fitness center, sauna and steam room, yoga room, resident lounge, game room, a 12-seat screening room, and a children's playroom — furnished with pieces by Finn Juhl, Fritz Hansen, and Knoll. The condominium is pet-friendly. Common charges fund the staffing and amenity program and vary by residence size, running roughly in the low-to-mid four figures per month for typical homes and higher for the larger duplex and penthouse units. As a condominium, the building permits financing and the customary range of ownership structures — pied-à-terre, trust, LLC, and investment purchases are all at home here.

Recent sales

Recent closings at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. Apartment-level facts are independently verified before publishing; sale prices reflect the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance.

Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,703/sf across 3 sales. Median listing discount 25.1% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00945-7502) and verified listing data. Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified by The Roebling Team research desk. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price; square footage from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.

Understand the two-building structure first. You are buying into the condominium portion at the top of the tower — the for-sale homes on the upper floors — which is governed and sold separately from the rental apartments below. That separation is to the buyer's benefit: the condominium residences hold the views and trade with condominium flexibility, while the rental floors carry their own operations.

Then weigh sponsor versus resale. With the sponsor still selling, much of the available inventory is new, immediate-occupancy product offered directly — which can mean negotiable concessions on price, common charges, or closing costs depending on the cycle, and a clean, well-documented offering plan to read. The condominium structure means financing is allowed, approval is lighter than a co-op board, and pied-à-terre, trust, and investment ownership are customary — a meaningful contrast to the co-ops elsewhere on the East Side. Buy the floor and the exposure: in a tower built around its views, altitude and river outlook are the value.

A resale here sells on scarcity and on the building's distinct identity: a Richard Meier–designed tower, a top-of-building condominium with full river and UN views, and a Meier-designed amenity suite anchored by a 70-foot lap pool. With sponsor inventory still in the market, the right strategy is to differentiate a resale clearly from new sponsor units — emphasizing a specific high floor, a finished and lived-in home, or a layout the sponsor no longer offers — rather than competing head-to-head on the sponsor's terms.

Benchmark to the building's own upper-floor trades and to the newest luxury condominium product near the UN and Midtown East, not to the surrounding rental or pre-war stock. Closing runs on condominium mechanics — a right-of-first-refusal rather than a co-op board process — which is faster and more predictable, and itself a selling point to the financing- and flexibility-minded buyer this building attracts.

If you're considering One United Nations Park, also evaluate other full-service condominiums and towers in the surrounding Murray Hill, Kips Bay, and East Midtown blocks:

• 400 East 35th Street (Manhattan Place) — full-service Kips Bay condominium with a rooftop pool
• 300 East 40th Street — full-service Murray Hill tower
• 305 East 45th Street — East Midtown building near the UN
• 321 East 43rd Street — Tudor City–area full-service building
• 160 East 38th Street — Murray Hill apartment building

The Roebling Team at Compass works the Murray Hill, Kips Bay, and United Nations condominium market closely — the new-development towers, the river-view product, and the distinction between sponsor and resale inventory that defines a building like this one. We publish this profile because buyers and sellers at One United Nations Park deserve building-specific intelligence: how the two-building structure works, what the upper-floor views are worth, and how a condominium sale runs in a tower still being sold by its sponsor.

If you're considering a purchase or sale here, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point — we'll walk the floors, the comparison set, and the numbers with you.